Britney Spears: Tell-all book released worldwide following Mexico ‘leak’
‘The Woman in Me’ is out now
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Your support makes all the difference.Britney Spears’s memoir is finally available to the public after pre-publication excerpts sent shockwaves through the entertainment world.
Ahead of its release on 24 October, Spears’s autobiography, titled The Woman in Me, appeared to accidentally go on sale in Mexico.
It is published by Simon and Schuster in the UK.
Among the biggest headlines to come out of the book so far are claims that Spears had an abortion while she was dating Justin Timberlake.
She also detailed the aftermath of their split, from the fallout from Timberlake’s hit song “Cry Me a River” to her fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell.
One subject that does not feature in The Woman in Me, however, is Spears’s recent divorce from ex-husband Sam Asghari after 14 months of marriage.
According to reports, Spears gave her final sign-off to Simon and Schuster mere weeks before it was announced that Asghari had filed for divorce, meaning she has “no right to demand any further changes”.
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Britney Spears has explained why she shares naked photos on her Instagram in her new memoir.
In an extract from the forthcoming book The Woman in Me seen by The New York Times, the singer acknowledged that many of her followers might find her posts confusing, but revealed that she gets “joy” from “posing the way I feel sexy”.
“I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” Spears writes in her autobiography.
“But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture.”
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Britney Spears hits out after negative comments about her new memoir
Spears has issued a response to critics of her new memoir, The Woman in Me.
Set to be released on 24 October, the pop icon’s book will reportedly cover everything from her controversial relationships to her 13-year conservatorship controlled by her father, Jamie Spears. As excerpts of the book have been released by multiple outlets, the internet has been sent into a frenzy over the released content.
In the memoir, Spears, 41, opens up about getting an abortion while she was in a relationship with Justin Timberlake from 1998 to 2002. She speaks candidly about her fallout with the NSYNC heartthrob, who she claims broke up with her over text, and her relationship with Irish actor Colin Farrell.
Following the online frenzy, the “Baby One More Time” singer took to her Instagram to clarify her intention with the memoir.
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‘Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood,’ Spears says
What was the deal with Britney Spears’s 13-year conservatorship?
Spears’s new memoir is shining a light on the singer’s recently concluded conservatorship.
Scheduled for release on Tuesday (24 October), The Woman In Me sees the Grammy winner chronicle several chapters of her life, including the legal arrangement that previously allowed her father James (known as Jamie) control over her career, finances, and personal life.
The controversial legal arrangement came to an end in November 2021, 13 years after it was put in place in 2008.
“The conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is no longer required,” said Judge Brenda J Penny in a decision that gave the pop star back all of her legal rights.
The ruling arrived months after the release of Framing Britney Spears, a widely watched documentary by The New York Times, which among other topics, focused on the conservatorship and the long-running #FreeBritney movement that was led by her fans.
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Controversial legal arrangement came to an end in November 2021
Sam Asghari speaks out on Britney Speaks memoir
Spears’s ex-husband has revealed that he’s already read Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir The Woman in Me.
With the singer’s memoir set to be released on 24 October, Asghari said he has obtained an early copy and already read it.
In an interview with TMZ, he explained that he wasn’t worried about anything written in the book that could paint him in a negative light. “I already read it and I’m very proud of her,” he told the outlet.
“She put a lot of work into it, and it was very hard,” Asghari continued. “I’m definitely excited, and I’m extremely proud of her. It was a very tough one [to write].”
The actor said that when the book does come out, he’ll be the first one in line to buy a copy of the memoir.
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Spears and Asghari announced their divorce in August 2023
A timeline of Britney Spears and Sam Asghari’s relationship, from dating to divorce
Ahead of the release of Britney Spears’ highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, much attention has been focused on her previous relationship with her ex-husband, Sam Asghari.
In August, it was announced that the pop star, 41, and the Iranian-American model, 29, were divorcing after nearly seven years together. Just 14 months earlier, Spears and Asghari were married in what he described as a “fairytale” backyard wedding ceremony. However, a number of rumours emerged around Spears’s alleged infidelity, while tabloids claimed that Asghari was attempting to renegotiate their prenuptial agreement – but his representative later denied this was the case.
Here is a timeline of Spears and Asghari’s relationship, from meeting on the set of her music video to their split.
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Spears and Asghari announced their divorce in August 2023 after 14 months of marriage
Britney Spears reveals Justin Timberlake broke up with her via text
Britney Spears has continued to open up about her former relationship with Justin Timberlake, this time explaining that the former NSYNC member broke up with her over a text message.
In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, obtained by the New York Times, Spears wrote about how the breakup affected her after their three-year relationship.
According to the memoir, the 2002 breakup left her “devastated” and she had even considered leaving the music industry entirely during that time. Spears wrote about how the separation didn’t even seem to phase Timberlake. “I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood,” she wrote, according to the NYTimes.
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Spears’ memoir is set to be released on 24 October
Britney Spears recounts Colin Farrell fling after Justin Timberlake slept with ‘six or seven girls’
The “Oops!...I Did It Again” pop star has compared her two-week fling with Colin Farell to a “street fight” in the whirlwind aftermath of her difficult break up with Justin Timberlake.
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Britney Spears’ tearful The Notebook audition with Ryan Gosling released after 21 years
Spears’s audition for 2004’s The Notebook has been released for the first time.
The romance movie, which is based on the 1996 novel by Nicolas Sparks, stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as teenagers Noah Calhoun and Alison “Allie” Hamilton, who fall in love in the 1940s.
Before McAdams, 44, read for the part of Allie, Spears, 41, was the front-runner to take on the role.
In the audition tape, published by the Daily Mail on Monday (23 October), Spears reads an emotional scene with Gosling off camera in which Allie tells Noah she is marrying another man.
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Spears beat out Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Jessica Biel before the role eventually went to Rachel McAdams
Britney Spears says ‘Cry Me a River’ media fallout portrayed her as a ‘harlot’ after Justin Timberlake split
Spears has said that the media fallout ignited by Justin Timberlake’s 2002 music video for his song “Cry Me a River” depicted her as a “harlot”.
The singer, 41, made the revelation in her forthcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, which will be released on 24 October. In an excerpt, Spears recalls the criticism that she faced when it was suggested in the press that Timberlake had written the heartbreak-themed song about her.
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‘A woman who looks like me cheats on him and he wanders around sad in the rain,’ Spears said of Timberlake’s 2002 music video for the track
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